Tag Archives: Poetry

by Colin Mcclurkin Poet Natalie Diaz visited Ohio Univeristy on Thursday, September 20 to read from her new book of poetry, “When My Brother Was an Aztec.” Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, where she faced poverty, addiction and the declining culture of her vibrant people. Her…

On September 22, students, faculty and community members gathered at the Walter Hall Rotunda for the annual Writers Harvest hosted by the Creative Writing department. The goal of the event is to fight the regional hunger crisis in Appalachian Ohio. The Ohio University Writers Harvest is just one in a national reading series dedicated to…

Poetry is something that I did not always appreciate, so I decided to explore how students view it on campus. To do this, I went to Designated Space two Tuesdays ago — Donkey Coffee’s weekly poetry night — in order to get a poet’s perspective. As I entered the “designated space” in the shop, I was…